THE PRIDE OF THE VILLAGE.

    <span style="color:grey">No boysterous ormes come her,

    <span style="color:grey">t s eart, like a spring,

    IN te counties of England, I ruck into one of t lead ts of try, and stopped one afternoon at a village tuation of ired. tive simplicity about its inants not to be found in t coacermined to pass t taken an early dinner, strolled out to enjoy the neighboring scenery.

    My ramble, as is usually travellers, soon led me to tood at a little distance from the village.

    Indeed, it  of some curiosity, its old toely overrun  only ting buttress, an angle of gray astically carved ornament peered t covering. It  of t in ternoon it ill  tract of golden sky in t, from  up all Nature into a melanc seemed like ting ian smiling on ty of  he will rise again in glory.

    I ed myself on a ombstone, and  to do at ted  scenes   and early friends--on tant and t kind of melanc someter even troke of a bell from tos tones ead of jarring, c ime before I recollected t it must be tolling tenant of tomb.

    Presently I sarain moving across t , and reappeared til it passed tting. ted by young girls dressed in  teen, oken t ts.

    tter order of peasantry.

    to repress  racted bro  aloud s of a mothers sorrow.

    I folloo tre aisle, and t of e gloves, was  whe deceased had occupied.

    Every one knounate as never to o tomb? But ence, ing? At t simple but most solemn consignment of to t;Earto earto as to dust!quot;--tears of trained. till seemed to   struggle o comfort  t t of  do of its sness; s;mourning over  be comforted.quot;

    On returning to t tory of the deceased.

    It old. Sy and pride of t farmer, but ances. t up entirely at y of rural life. Sor, te lamb of tle ?ock.  tcion ernal care; it ed and suitable to to move, for  to make  to ation in life, not to raise . tenderness and indulgence of s and tion from all ordinary occupations ered a natural grace and delicacy of cer t accorded ender plant of tally amid tives of the ?elds.

    ty of  and ackno envy, for it leness and winning kindness of  migruly said of her:

    <span style="color:grey">quot;ttiest lo ever

    <span style="color:grey"> Ran on thing she does or seems

    <span style="color:grey"> But smacks of someter than herself;

    tered spots ain some vestiges of old Englisoms. It s rural festivals   and imes, and still kept up some faint observance of tes of May. ted by its present pastor, ians t ting joy on eartood from year to year in tre of t ed reamers, and a queen or lady of ted, as in former times, to preside at ts and distribute turesque situation of ts rustic fetes en attract tice of casual visitors. Among t ly quartered in tive taste t pervaded t, but, above all,  e lessness of rural s enabled o make ance; o imacy, and paid  to  untoo apt to tri?e ic simplicity.

    to startle or alarm. alked of love, but t more eloquent t subtilely and irresistibly to t. tone of voice, tendernesses ion,--true eloquence of love, and can al and understood, but never described. Can  t young, guileless, and susceptible? As to  unconsciously; s   and feeling, or o be its consequences.

    S to ture. , tention;  of  intervieies in Nature; alked in te and cultivated life, and breato cry.

    Per  girls. t ?gure of ary attire mig ?rst  it  t ivated . tac  of idolatry. So o a being of a superior order.

    S in y turally delicate and poetical, and no ao a keen perception of tiful and grand. Of tinctions of rank and fortune s not ellect, of demeanor, of manners, from tic society to  elevated en to  look of mute deligle ured a simid admiration, it  tive unhiness.

    ure. ion in levity, for en  of ts, and t some triumpo ation as a man of spirit. But oo full of yout  yet been rendered suf?ciently cold and sel?sed life: it caug sougo kindle, and before ure of uation he became really in love.

    acles tacs. itled connections, o trimony; but ender and con?ding, ty in y in  aious feeling. In vain did ry to fortify less examples of men of faso ciment  cold derisive levity alk of female virtue:  mysterious but impassive cy in  can live.

    t to repair to tinent completed t time in a state of t painful irresolution; ated to communicate tidings until t elligence in the course of an evening ramble.

    ting o  broke in at once upon y; s as a sudden and insurmountable evil, and  y of a co ears from  c s of mingled sorroenderness uous, and t of beauty apparently yielding in o overo propose t sunes.

    e a novice in seduction, and blusered at  so innocent of mind im t s ?rst at a loss to compreive village and ts.  last ture of   o reproac a  s as from a viper, gave  pierced to o tage.

    tired confounded, ed, and repentant. It is uncertain  of  s been diverted by tle of departure. Need i?ed enderness; yet, amidst tir of camps, ttles, s imes steal back to t and village simplicity--te cottage, tpattle village maid loitering along it, leaning on ening to ion.

    truction of all ings and erics  ?rst sender frame, and tled and pining melancing troops. Sriump trumpet and trained a last acer tered about  vision from , and left her all in darkness.

    It rite to diculars of er story.

    It ales of love, melancy and  alone in t frequented , like tricken deer, to  rankled in imes se of an evening sitting in turning from tive ditty in t in ions at ced a ic gloom and t ual, and looking after heir heads in gloomy foreboding.

    S a conviction t sening to tomb, but looked foro it as a place of rest. t o existence o be no more pleasure under tle bosom ertained resentment against  inguis of saddened tenderness ster. It  toucs very simplicity. Sold  s conceal from   ed t concluded  s die in peace until s him her forgiveness and her blessing.

    By degrees rengt stage. Sotter to t o sit all day and look out upon till stered no complaint nor imparted to any one t y over till ?attering t it migo fres t uneartimes ?us be turning h.

    In ted beternoon; tice  air t stole in broug tering rained round the window.

    been reading a cer in t spoke of ty of  seemed to  and serenity through her bosom.

    ant village colled for t villager o to t illness peculiar to t. s rembled in  blue eye. as ss o t distant co hered?

    Suddenly to ttage; ed before t exclamation and sunk back in   lover. o to clasp o  ed form, enance--so  so lovely in its desolation--smote o t . Soo faint to rise--stempted to extend rembling  no iculated; sterable tenderness, and closed her eyes forever.

    Suciculars wory.

    t scanty, and I am conscious tle novelty to recommend t rage also for strange incident and ive trite and insigni?cant, but terested me strongly at time; and, taken in connection ing ceremony nessed, left a deeper impression on my mind tances of a more striking nature. I ed tter motive ty. It ry evening: trees ripped of tled coldly the dry grass.

    Evergreens, ed about te, and osiers  over it to keep turf uninjured.

    tepped in. t of ?o is true, but care seemed to aken t no dust seness. I s s poo aator, but I   spoke more touco my  t delicate memento of departed innocence.

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